An engineered confinement device reveals how the microtubule cytoskeleton senses and adapts to its environment by harnessing the interplay between catastrophe instability and branching nucleation.
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Sakamoto, R., Maeda, Y.T. A search-and-branch mechanism for microtubule sensing. Nat Chem Eng 2, 537–538 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44286-025-00276-w
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